Updating view handling code; pinning sqlalchemy version

.github/workflows/test-dependencies.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+# This workflow will install the package on a regular schedule to check if there are any depenedency issues.
+
+name: Test Astrodbkit Dependencies
+
+on:
+  schedule:
+    - cron: '0 16 * * *'
+
+jobs:
+  build:
+
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+      strategy:
+        matrix:
+          python-version: [3.11, 3.12, 3.13]
+
+      steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - name: Set up Python ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v5
+        with:
+          python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        run: |
+          python -m pip install --upgrade pip
+          # install package and requirements
+          pip install ".[all]"
+      - name: Test with pytest
+        run: |
+          pytest

astrodbkit/views.py

@@ -45,14 +45,24 @@ def view_doesnt_exist(ddl, target, connection, **kw):
 
 
 def view(name, metadata, selectable):
-    t = table(name)
 
-    t._columns._populate_separate_keys(col._make_proxy(t) for col in selectable.selected_columns)
+    t = sa.table(
+        name,
+        *(
+            sa.Column(c.name, c.type, primary_key=c.primary_key)
+            for c in selectable.selected_columns
+        ),
+    )
+    t.primary_key.update(c for c in t.c if c.primary_key)
 
     sa.event.listen(
         metadata,
         "after_create",
         CreateView(name, selectable).execute_if(callable_=view_doesnt_exist),
     )
-    sa.event.listen(metadata, "before_drop", DropView(name).execute_if(callable_=view_exists))
+    sa.event.listen(
+        metadata,
+        "before_drop",
+        DropView(name).execute_if(callable_=view_exists),
+    )
     return t

pyproject.toml

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ requires-python = ">= 3.11"
 dependencies = [
     "astropy",
     "astroquery",
-    "sqlalchemy>=2.0",
+    "sqlalchemy>=2.0.38",
     "pandas>=1.0.4",
     "packaging",
     "specutils>=1.0",